Adobe Photoshop is the professional photographers secret tool to creating fantastic photographs yet can be a challenging program to learn. Given the learning curve that Photoshop demands many everyday photographers feel intimidated by the program. Because of this fact, Adobe has introducted Photoshop Elements, a "lite" version of their popular program. Adobe Elements contains many of the same tools and features as Photoshop yet is much easier to learn and master.
What makes Elements different from Photoshop? Elements is contains many of the same features and tools as Photoshop. For example, in both programs you can fix lighting problems, remove unwanted items, fix red-eye, and create a multitude of projects including scrapbooks, calendars and cards. These are only a few of the similarities between the programs. The main difference between the programs is that Adobe Elements is much easier to learn since it has an easier to use interface. This advantage allows a newcomer to the program a faster assimilation so you can begin working with your photos almost immediately. With Adobe Photoshop you could spend months learning all the tools and features.
Can I find tutorials for Adobe Elements? Regardless of whether you decide to use Photoshop or Elements you may wish to view tutorials in order to get started on the right foot. You can find a variety of tutorials available in all sorts of mediums, including online tutorials, DVD's or CD-Rom. Tutorials a great ways to learn about the tools available (and how to find them) as well as showing you various keyboard shortcuts to the various tools. You can find different tutorials that focus on a variety features and you should expect to learn how to use text in combination with your images as well as using special effects, masks, layers, as well as a variety of other thing.
Adobe Elements tools: The latest versions of Adobe Photoshop 5 and Adobe Photoshop 7 help in turning an old worn out picture into a colorful and vivid picture. The in built tools in the Photoshop would lead you to bring the best out of an old photograph worth discarding. Some of the few tools include, smudge tool used to add special effects to the foreground and background. Blur tool helps you lighten the part in the picture that is unclear or in a shadow. Sharpen tool is used to make a photograph sharper and clearer in case it appears blurred. Burn tool helps you to edit the image into a darker version and thus brings out its highlights clearly. Apart from these tools there are a number of other tools using which you could create beautiful colored images.
Adobe Elements tips: a) Use the Photo merge feature to combine multiple images to create a seamless panorama. You can further enhance it by using rotate, zoom and pan tools. b) You can easily flip through the various blend modes through ship+ to change to the next mode and shift - to go to the previous. These shortcuts would give you the ease of glancing all the modes quickly than separately clicking and viewing them. c) Remember to use the picture package option print all the pictures with different print size on one page.
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